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Eric Schiller vs Howery Pack
"April Fool's Mate" (game of the day Apr-01-08)
Port Washington (skittles) 1969  ·  King Pawn Game: Parham Attack (C20)  ·  1-0
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Apr-01-08
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  egilarne: I have also seen this game played, in my local chess club around 1990. I think the player with the black pieces had been taught that defending against Qh5 / Bc4 with Qe7 was good - and that he remembered it wrong, and played Ke7 instead - - .
Apr-01-08  slowcrawl: This is a very good game. Now if I may, I'll go on and analyze a few more lines that might have made the game a win for black.

April fools.

Apr-02-08  D.Observer: Ha! Ha! Ha! April Fools!
Apr-02-08  D.Observer: The queen was indeed wayward, but the king was foolish.
May-10-08
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  parmetd: I actually had this game once against a 500 rated player.
Jun-01-08
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  hedgeh0g: Schiller's Immortal.
Jul-25-08  somethingoriginal: cool.
Jul-25-08
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  PinnedPiece: <hedgeh0g: Schiller's Immortal.>

C'mon Eric, ya gotta laugh at that.

Jul-26-08  somethingoriginal: Only one faster mate. 1.f3 e5 2.g4 Qh4#
Aug-13-08  dumbgai: The first tournament game I ever saw Eric Schiller play, he lost in about 11 moves to a middle school boy. Karma perhaps?
Oct-10-08  somethingoriginal: <Judah> That's the Hammershlag
Oct-10-08  somethingoriginal: <Well, that' s not true, alexmagnus, 'cause the game can be continued. The quickest possible way is: 1.d4 d5 2.Qd3 Qd6 3. Qh3 Qh6 4. Qc8 mate.>

Also 1.c4 c5 2.Qa4?! Qa5?? 3.Qc6???? Qc3??????????????????????????????? 4.Qxc8#

Oct-10-08  somethingoriginal: that is 1.c4


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1...c5


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2.Qa4


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2...Qa5


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3.Qc6


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3...Qc3


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4.Qxc8#


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Dec-23-08  WhiteRook48: 2. Qh5? was bad enough, 2...Ke7????????????? deserves a million question marks. Of course the first moves were okay, but why would you play ...Ke7? Oh and this is Pack's only game in the database
Dec-23-08  morphchess1857: This is not even a authentic chess game, a believe its a joke by Schiller.
Dec-31-08  just a kid: Ke7!Brilliant!
Feb-24-09  WhiteRook48: Black Packed up and left.
Jun-05-09  wolfmaster: Possible pun, "Pack Mauled."
Jun-05-09  WhiteRook48: and also 1. d4 d5 2. Qd3?! Qd6??!! 3 Qf5?? Qf4???? 4 Qxc8#
Oct-07-09
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  GrahamClayton: Pack should have been sent "packing" after this performance!
Dec-17-09  Cercatore: somethingoriginal:

Sorry, why white don't take the queen? And after, why black don't take the queen? And after, why white don't take the queen? etc...

Feb-12-10  TheChessVids: I thought that this database was only supposed to include strong players.
Feb-18-10  rich187113: Nice joke. But I have seen this before amonst patzers. Normally defend with Bd6.
Apr-01-11  TheTamale: Black's play here is daring and innovative. To be sure, he incurs the risk that his opponent will spot the mate in 1, bringing things to a brutal end. On the other hand, if White misses the mate, Black has a devastating position... not a forced win, perhaps, but the kind of setup that chess players usually can only dream of: a dynamic, well-placed king and an entire arsenal of footsoldiers at the ready, crouching from their original squares, brimming over with potential energy, ready to spring with lethal force.

I doubt I will incorporate this opening into my (highly successful) tournament play, but I'll bet I dust of more than a few patzers with it in blitz.

Apr-01-11
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  Once: The complete chess addict has this very odd game:

Lindemann-Echtermayer, Kiel, 1893:

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5


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And now white reaches for his queen's knight to play the perfectly natural 3. Nc3. But he accidentally touches his Bc1 instead. As we know, if you touch a piece you must move it. But at the time, if you touched a piece that cannot move you must instead play a move with your king.

This meant that white was forced to play 3. Ke2. And a delighted black followed this with 3...Qe4#


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It is so very sad that the rules of chess have changed to prevent this sort of thing from happening again...

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